"A very useful and well-written book for users that are just now starting to use PHP, and even to people with intermediate skills... a great resource that I strongly recommend." - Peter Blogs --Scandinavian Books Website

"The book covers such a wide array of subjects that I highly recommend peeking at the table of contents to understand the wealth of information that this book has to offer." - Caroline Begin --Relaxation at Home Book of the Month

"This book is great. The author's style of writing is good. His explanation of the code is great and easy to follow. I have not encountered any errors while playing around with the code." - Pule Nong --Amazon US

"A well laid-out book that serves both as a textbook and reference manual. I recommend this book to be added to anybody's library who has a working interest in web development." - James McLeod --Amazon US

Product DescriptionPractical solutions to real-world problems

This practical guide gives you 100 ready-to-run PHP functions for solving most of the main problems you encounter when building a dynamic website with PHP. Every plug-in in the book offers a complete and working solution for a result you can achieve right away, using ready-made code you simply drop into your own program. And there's little or no learning curve, because each one is self-contained and thoroughly documented.

Packed with tips and suggestions

Plug-in PHP is packed with programming tips and suggestions for further adapting the functions to your own needs, and even breaks down all the variables, arrays and functions used by each into at-a-glance tables, accompanied by a screen grab of every function in action. This makes the book extremely easy to use, even for complete beginners to PHP programming.

Real world solutions

Plug-in PHP has everything you need for:

Processing text

Image uploading and manipulation

Content management

Forms and user input

Integrating your website with others

Creating chat and messaging services

Using MySQL

Managing sessions and cookies

Dealing with APIs; RSS; and XML

Integrating with JavaScript and Ajax

Accessing geo-location

Spell checking and language translation

A great deal more...

The author's personal toolkit

Written by a PHP expert with many years of experience developing websites in PHP and writing about PHP development, this invaluable resource draws on the author's personal toolkit of solutions built up over the years. This means they are fast, tried-and-tested functions that have been proven to work in the real world, and they will work for you too.